The Femme Continuum: The "Highs" and "Lows" of Visibility

[Semantics]

Originally Posted by Mrs. Strutt

And I would like others in our very own community to stop looking right through us when they meet us on the street in automatic assumption we are straight.

I'm never recognized as queer unless I'm on the arm of a butch. It's kind of a drag for a single person.

Short of wearing a rainbow jumpsuit I'm not sure what to do about it.

Originally Posted by Pretty Woman

[COLOR="Blue"]But Portia Derossi isn't femme! She is a straight chick that was looking for a publicity boost!

Oh. Do you know her?

She's married to a woman. I don't really know how either she or her wife identify but I think it's unkind to reduce a couple's relationship to a "publicity boost".